The WAT #5

The World According to

Patricia Esquivias

http://thewato.blogspot.com.br/

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO invites an artist to collaborate on a magazine. Using sources other than his or her own work, s/he develops an idea, a concept, a subject, or a vision that can only be realized in the form of a print publication. On sixty-four blank pages, s/he creates a unique project by collecting images, texts, graphics, and/or by inviting artists, friends, family members to contribute content.

PATRICIA ESQUIVIAS (*1979 in Caracas, Venezuela. Lives and works in Madrid, Spain).

Since 2005, Patricia has created videos that weave found images, history, and personal anecdotes into narratives that convey her in- sights about contemporary culture. Esquivias acts as narrator in these vignettes while the camera is filming her hands scrolling through images and videos on her laptop, and inserting physical pictures as she speaks. The connections that Esquivias creates in her work are often idiosyncratic and difficult to locate, offering the viewer an opportunity for contemplation and discovery.

In this issue of THE WORLD ACCORDING TO Patricia Esquivias introduces the work of Fernando Garrido Rodríguez, an architect whom she’d met by chance while doing research for a video project on a group of residential houses that were built in Madrid in the late nineteen-fifties. Following her intuition, she asked Garrido to show her some of his work and discovered an entire oeuvre of innova- tive coastal architecture dating from the early nineteen-sixties to today. Patricia Esquivias dedicates this magazine to Garrido’s work, which has scarcely been documented or published before.

Editor

THE OFFICE Katharina Fichtner

Founders

Ellen Blumenstein, Katharina Fichtner Maribel López, Kathrin Meyer (THE OFFICE) and Frank Kalero